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numen

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈnjuː.mən/Part of speech nounSorted emnnuStarts with NEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin nūmen.

Used in a sentence

  • Where were Secretaries James and Foster and Senator Joseph, those dear daft numina who’d mothered over Oedipa’s so temperate youth?
  • It was the solid and immovable tabernacle of the living numen whose son he had known, though but briefly and not intimately, in the flesh, and whose message he accepted with all his heart.
  • […]but never did the places or the persons turn into idols for my irrational worship. It was only the numen in them that I loved, who, as I passed by abstracted, whispered some immortal word in my ear.

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